A patent filed by Microsoft last year, but only made public last week, wants to turn your Xbox 360's Kinect into an instrument via which large companies can monitor your media usage and, if you're found to be in violation of something, charge you...

Being a gamer myself, along with most people in my age range and younger being gamers, I could never agree that videogames are a negative influence on children. At least not in general. And no more so than any other visual or written media.

Science Links Videogames to Heightened CreativityEscapist Magazine"Once they do that, video games can be designed to optimize the development of creativity while retaining their entertainment values such that a new generation of videogames will blur...

This aspect of education is so crucial that in my home state of Virginia, the educational standards of almost every grade level mention and place weight onto oral language objectives. Plenty of video games force people to ...

So far, the research community broadly accepts the potential benefits of educational videogames, even when such benefits have not been properly and empirically demonstrated yet. However, the actual application of ...

Their mission is to demonstrate the social, cultural, and educational potentials of videogames by initiating new game development projects, coordinating interdisciplinary research efforts, and informing public conversations ...

Sometimes the best lesson children can learn is that the world is a very dark and forbidding place. These are the video games that gave a whole generation of screenheads a degree from the School of Hard Knocks.

Are you a video game afficionado in need of some extra cash? Run to your shelves and look for the games below, because they are some of the most valuable games released in the past decade. The following survey looks ...

Video Games: The New Way to Learn. This post is published as a Web extension of our August 2012 Education Issue – our annual blow-out of all things educational. To read it in full, visit our e-store to purchase a copy or ...

USA TodayResearch: Video games help with creativity in boys and girlsUSA TodayThat could lead to a new wave of edutainment video games that "will blur the distinction between education and entertainment," they write in the report.

In the future, public education will use videogames like this to provide immersive virtual worlds in which students can pursue independent research. I don't mean online education that replaces teachers, which is a terrible idea ...

Not specifically you and I, lone reader, but the videogame playing public. When our greasy filthy marketing rat spoke the words “sex sells”, he was unfortunately correct. We males are simple dull creatures and will apparently ...

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